Blurring the lines between hip-hop, R&B, and indie pop, Canadian DJ and producer Ryan Hemsworth has worked with the likes of Lana Del Rey, Shady Blaze, Quadron, and Tinashe while maintaining a similarly collaborative solo career. Debuting with 2010's Cover Yr Shame EP and Distorted, a collaboration with Shady Blaze, he issued his full-length solo debut, Guilt Trips, in 2013. Additional dance-pop efforts Alone for the First Time and Elsewhere were buffered by joint EPs with the likes of Lucas and Yurufuwa Gang.
Raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hemsworth was attending the city's...